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Spanky Senior Member Canada Joined 5958 days ago 1021 posts - 1714 votes Studies: French
| Message 17 of 18 14 May 2013 at 11:58pm | IP Logged |
I have finished the Michel Thomas Beginner's Spanish course. I heartily recommend it as a starting point for new learners. I cannot speak to the issue of Thomas' accent, but the format of his correction of the students' pronunciation issues has I believe been of assistance to me.
The last two discs (discs 9 and 10) represent, as is the case with his other courses, a review of the material presented in the preceding eight discs. I was pretty successful in internalizing that material as most of it appeared to have stuck really well. I liked how he tackled verbs generally - made it very easy, even more so than with his French and German beginners material. The subjunctive was not addressed at all, presumably that will be taken up in the advanced materials.
Goal by the middle of July is to self-test for the CEFR A1 level using whatever online testing material is available (which presumably does not include oral production testing), after pulling up my socks a bit and after having logged at least 200 hours study time while completing at least the following:
- FSI Programmatic Course - Volumes 1 and 2 (50 units)
- Michel Thomas Advanced (5 discs)
- Living Language Ultimate Spanish (Basic-Intermediate) (40 units)
- Spanish.about.com 12 week course (5 units)
- BBC, Mi vida loca, 22 units
- Destinos, 52 episodes
Edited by Spanky on 15 May 2013 at 12:03am
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| Emily96 Diglot Senior Member Canada Joined 4430 days ago 270 posts - 342 votes Speaks: English*, French Studies: Spanish, Finnish, Latin
| Message 18 of 18 15 August 2013 at 3:14am | IP Logged |
Spanky! How has it been going with Spanish lately?
Edited by Emily96 on 15 August 2013 at 3:19am
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